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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology